No sword to bury : Japanese Americans in Hawai'i during World War II / Franklin Odo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Odo, Franklin.

Series:

Asian American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese Americans--Hawaii.

Japanese Americans.

Ethnic relations.

Hawaii--Ethnic relations.

Hawaii.

Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.

World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Japanese American.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

vii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Japanese Americans in Hawai'i during World War II

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2004.

Summary:

When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and called upon to defend the islands against invasion immediately after the attack. In a matter of weeks, however, the military government questioned their loyalty and disarmed them. In this book, Franklin Odo places the largely unfold story of the war-time experience of these young men in the context of the community created by their immigrant families and its relationship to the larger, white-dominated society. At the heart of the book are vivid oral histories that recall the young men's service on the home front in the Varsity Victory Volunteers, a non-military group dedicated to public works, as well as in the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team that fought in Europe and the Military Intelligence Service. Odo shows how their war-time experience Services and their post-war success in business and politics contributed to the simplistic view of Japanese Americans as a model minority in Hawai'i and glossed over significant differences in their lives and perspectives. "No Sword to Bury is a book about a critical moment in ethnic identity formation among the first generation of Americans of Japanese descent (the nisei) as well as a history of their community during the war.

Contents:

Introduction: The Making of a Model Minority 1

1 Immigrant Parents 9

2 Generation on Trial: The 1920s 35

3 Before the Fire: The 1930s 69

4 Pearl Harbor 101

5 Hawai'i Territorial Guard 117

6 The Varsity Victory Volunteers 143

Photo Gallery 167

7 Schofield Barracks 181

8 The Front Lines: Battlefront and Home Front 221

9 After the War 253

Appendix Roster of Varsity Victory Volunteers 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-314) and index.

ISBN:

1592132073

OCLC:

52431037